All bark, all bite

Local communities in Nepal and some Central American nations have become invaluable participants in managing their forests

Rights over forests

THE SAGA OF PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA· N C Saxena·CIFOR Special Publication, Jakarta, 1997

And forests shall follow

The minister thinks it is time to formulate an integrated forest policy

People do not grow what they cannot use

India’s first forest-certification scheme gets global recognition

A Geneva-based non-profit recently decided to endorse the Certification Standard for Sustainable Forest Management designed for Indian forests

10 good news we got in 2018

As this year nears its end, here’s a look at stories by Down To Earth that brought some relief to an otherwise climate change-ravaged period

If passed, new forest policy will benefit private sector and hurt local ecology: experts

The draft policy talks about developing “public private participation models” for undertaking “afforestation and reforestation …

In the Parliament on March 8, 2016

Here’s a round-up of today’s debates and reports on environmental and developmental issues

Bandwagon role for joint forestry

Though programmes involving villagers in the regeneration of forest lands have been successful, caution should be exercised while bringing new …

Fights for space

Once harmonious, the human-elephant relationship has taken an ugly turn. Faulty forest policies and nationwide destruction of elephant habitats …

A brigand called government

Whatever the outcome of the hostages crisis in Karnataka, stupid sandalwood protection laws will keep creating smugglers out of India's exploited …

Nepal squeezes forest users

The community forest user groups of Nepal will now be required to cough up a steep 40 per cent fee on their total income from sale of forest products

Suddenly tribal

Some wildlifers resorted to outdated anthropology to stop the tribal forest rights bill. They failed

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Double whammy

Two proposed moves that could drastically alter forest management in India

Home run

J&K halts export of willow clefts used for making cricket bats

Forest Rights Act: Who is the encroacher and who is encroached upon

Thirteen years after a historic law was formulated to give forest dwellers legal ownership of their traditional land, their fate still hangs in …

Melbourne could go the Cape Town way: Study

A large forest near the city is on the brink of collapse, in turn endangering the city’s water supply

Final National Forest Policy to be out soon

Most comments in the draft policy concern with the dilution of the Forest Rights Act and opening up forest land for private players 

Uttarakhand sits on forest right claims settlement for two years in a row

With the state assembly election around the corner, the model code of conduct is the favourite excuse for non implementation of FRA

10 highlights of the new draft national forest policy

On June 15, India's environment ministry placed the draft national forest policy in public domain for comments and suggestions. It is slated …

The sad plight of India's forestry graduates

Forest graduates are being sidelined in favour of science graduates in the State Forest Service

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Talking green

Participants at an international conference on forest management discuss ways to curb logging